Safety Facts

More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.

Ballpoint pen caps are designed with holes or clips specifically to reduce choking deaths - a safety feature mandated by international standards after pen caps became a recognized hazard, especially for children.

The most dangerous job in the United States is that of an Alaskan Crab Fisherman.

Studies show that drivers talking on cell phones, even hands-free, have reaction times comparable to drunk drivers at the legal limit of 0.08% BAC.

First aid training is mandatory in order to obtain a driver's license in Germany.

Around 300 ft uphill from the highest water level reached by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami sits a centuries-old stone marker that warns: “Do not build your homes below this point!”

Every 87 seconds, a house catches fire in the United States—that's about 944 residential fires every single day.

One million people each year are bitten by animals in the United States.

In Churchill, Manitoba—the 'Polar Bear Capital of the World'—residents are encouraged to leave their car doors unlocked so people can escape if they encounter a polar bear on the street.

Fruit stickers are FDA-approved to be made from edible materials, including food-grade paper and adhesive. While not intended for consumption, they're designed to pass through your digestive system harmlessly if accidentally swallowed.

You would need to smoke between 20,000-40,000 joints to be at risk of dying of a THC overdose.

On very long, boring roads in Australia, they put up trivia signs to keep drivers alert. One sign asks a question, and a few kilometres later another sign gives the answer.

The Jaws of Life, the hydraulic tool that pries a wrecked car open, came out of a drag racing parts shop. George Hurst, who made the shifters in America's muscle cars, watched a crash crew take over an hour to free a driver in the 1960s and built a rescue tool of his own. His first weighed 350 pounds; the version that followed weighed 65. Fire crews still cut people out of cars with it every day.